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Sitting in the discipline is always going to be better than waiting for inspiration to come for me.Ĭan you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio? Trying to get it out of my system and holding no expectations or much thought on doing anything with these pieces. Since these pieces I’ve been making bad art. How do you stay prolific? Do you have any particular methods to push past a creative block? The flow would find itself as the sitter would find themselves in the image I’d begin the painting. Each image takes hours of adjustments and redesigning the concepts. These works are developed with the sitter in person. These works for God’s & Not are an exploration of my portraiture into this mythological world. We slowly built and explored what our mythological Queer world would be. The lockdowns really had me and my partner in a flow of journaling and creativity. Eventually I found love in the analogue world of colour, where I was limited only to my own two hands and my knowledge.Ĭan you elaborate a little more on your making process – how does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?

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After exploring digital art in my teens as the internet and technology was just beginning to boom I found myself constantly struggling with keeping up with technology while needing the most recent tools available, updating software and computers as they became too slow to function. I work with oil colour, pure pigment suspended in oil, because I fell in love with the richness in colour, texture, and the history that the art medium holds. What medium(s) do you work with, and why have you chosen them? Each painting is a purposeful exploration of colour and light.’ ‘My passion and expression has been developed by working from life in portraiture, still life, and figurative expressions while taking reference from historical emotion in art to reinterpret the world at current in an otherworldly-yet historic mythology. Kyle KM is a Queer artist based in Richmond, Naarm and has been working with oil colours for over 10 years.īrunswick Street Gallery, with the support of Yarra City Council, is excited to exhibit Kyle KM’s Gods & Not in our Ground Floor Gallery Project - a dedicated exhibition space to showcase the work of emerging artists based across Australia. I think for people that don’t patron these spaces and might find the images “confronting” I also think that the works can be a learning or entry point for them.Īlthough that being said, when I had the billboards at the Substation I did have to curate those works to be more ‘palatable’ and less controversial due to the public nature of the displays. That is to say, I don’t censor the works or curate for audiences. I consider the subjects in the photographs, but I don’t think I consider the audiences. How do you consider your audience when you are making an artwork? I have a lot on, from design projects to other creative works, and currently just feeling a bit burnt out from application writing and rejection emails, tbh. With Impossible Dance (ii) at BSG I’m finishing a multi-space exhibition project - Impossible Dance i - iv, which has been so huge for me and so great, so I’m just going to be enjoying this final installation in the project and the whole thing overall. What upcoming projects are you working on?

In relation to artists, Rennie Ellis is my biggest inspiration. Finding natural and temporal tableaux and being present to capture specific scenes and interactions. (In relation to my photographic works) I am inspired by the people, clubs, parties and ‘moments’ within the events in which I photograph. Who or what are the biggest influences to your work? Having photographed events, parties and queer spaces for over a decade Lucas’ photography work is informed by representing, celebrating and uplifting queer spaces, fringe cultures and subcultures and its peoples.īrunswick Street Gallery, with the support of Yarra City Council, is excited to exhibit Matto Lucas’ Impossible Dance (ii) in our Ground Floor Gallery Project - a dedicated exhibition space to showcase the work of emerging artists based across Australia.

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Lucas’ work (regardless of whether it is performance, photography or painting) attempts to interrogate systems of power (ie. Matto Lucas is a Naarm-based multi-media artist, photographer and lecturer.

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